Lot 44
  • 44

Issachar Ber Ryback 1897-1935

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Description

  • Issachar Ber Ryback
  • Boy Crossing a Stream
  • signed I Ryback (lower right); inscribed I Ryback 39 rue de l'Orne Paris XV (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas
  • 15 by 21 1/2 in.
  • 38.1 by 54.6 cm.

Provenance

Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Condition

In good condition aside from cracquelure in greens upper and lower 1/4 of painting. Canvas slightly buckled upper and center left. Approx. 1/2-inch area of loss lower left (to the left of goose beak) from a repair (patch visible on the reverse). Under UV: no apparent sign of in-paint; masking varnish.
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